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Taxonomy and Slots

People have symptoms and diseases, and diseases are associated with symptoms. This requires us to define the appropriate sets, with a few illustrative individual diseases and symptoms.

  (tell '((:taxonomy (Objects
                      (People)
                      (Diseases Flu Plague)
                      (Symptoms Fever High-Fever Nausea Nodules)))))

  (tell '((:slot has-disease (people diseases))
          (:slot has-symptom (people symptoms))
          (:slot symptom     (diseases symptoms))
          (:slot temperature (physical-objects :number) :cardinality 1)))

The meanings of the relations are:

tabular498



Micheal S. Hewett
Tue Oct 29 10:54:13 CST 1996